Mathematical writing · Between the Challenge and the Olympiad

Contents

13 chapters. Three hundred and eighty-eight problems from the Indian national olympiad qualifiers (PRMO and IOQM), arranged by topic and solved in full. The problems remain the work of the examiners who set them and are reproduced with attribution.

  1. 1Tools this book assumes
  2. 2Divisibility, Primes and Congruences
  3. 3Digits, Bases and Representation
  4. 4Diophantine Equations
  5. 5Polynomials and Equations
  6. 6Inequalities and Optimisation
  7. 7Sequences, Series and Recursions
  8. 8Counting and Arrangements
  9. 9Counting One Thing by Counting Another
  10. 10Pigeonhole, Extremal and Invariants
  11. 11Sets, Inclusion-Exclusion and Configurations
  12. 12Triangles: Lengths, Angles and Areas
  13. 13Circles, Coordinates and Trigonometry